Rangers clobbered by Orioles’ 4-homer, 9-run seventh inning

In a flash, a solid start by Martin Perez and a big inning by the Texas Rangers’ offense was erased.

The Baltimore Orioles homered four times in a nine-run seventh inning and won 11-5 on Friday night at Globe Life Park.

Baltimore first chased Perez with no outs in the inning and then rocked reliever Tom Wilhelmsen for five runs on five hits, including homers by Jonathan Schoop and Nolan Reimold.

It didn’t end there, either.

Andrew Faulkner replaced Wilhelmsen with two outs and one on. He promptly walked Chris Davis and served up a three-run homer to Mark Trumbo, his second homer in the inning.

Trumbo had five of the nine RBIs in the inning and is the first Orioles players to homer twice in the same inning. The four homers are the most by any team in an inning since the Tigers hit four in June 2013.

When the top of the seventh was over, the Orioles had turned a 5-1 deficit into a 10-5 lead.

Schoop homered again off Faulkner in the eighth to make it 11-5.

The surge wiped out a five-run second inning for the Rangers against Orioles starter Vance Worley.

Mitch Moreland homered with one out to start the rally, his first of the season. The Rangers scored four more on two hits, two walks and a hit by pitch against Bryan Holaday that gave the Rangers a 2-1 lead.

A two-run single to center by Delino DeShields made it 4-1 and Holaday just beat a throw home on a sacrifice fly by Nomar Mazara to make it 5-1.

It looked like it would hold up, too, despite Texas being held to just three hits the final seven innings.

After allowing an unearned run in the first, Perez faced the minimum between the second and sixth innings, thanks to three double plays. He was still in command with a 1-2-3 sixth inning.

Banister said Jake Diekman, Sam Dyson and Keone Kela were not available out of the bullpen. Kela and Dyson each threw an inning Thursday and have five appearances already. Diekman threw two-thirds of an inning and took the loss in Wednesday’s walk-off loss to the Mariners in Seattle. It was his sixth appearance.

“We needed for Tom to come in and get those outs there, but they didn’t miss much in that inning,” Banister said. “Rough inning all the way around. When you miss your pitches this is a club we know has a lot of guys in their lineup that can hit the ball out of the ballpark.”

Wilhelmsen threw two pitches and forced an inning-ending double play in the sixth inning in Thursday’s win.

In three appearances (1  1/3 innings) at Globe Life Park, however, he’s allowed 10 runs on nine hits, including four home runs. He declined to comment after Friday’s game.

“We’ll dig into the video and see what we can see, but it looked like execution from my vantage point,” Banister said. “It comes down to other guys in that bullpen coming in and executing their pitches and getting their outs.”

It was the fifth appearance for Wilhelmsen and Faulkner.

Perez also started the game on April 5 in which he left with the game tied 2-2 after six innings before the bullpen allowed eight runs, including five by Wilhelmsen.

“It’s part of the game. It’s a long season,” Perez said. “We’ve got a good bullpen. It’s early in the season and it can happen in any game. It was a bad day and let’s leave it behind us.”

This story was originally published April 15, 2016 at 11:36 PM with the headline "Rangers clobbered by Orioles’ 4-homer, 9-run seventh inning."